Lee Friedlander's restless eye is nowhere in stronger evidence than in his photographs of cars in the American scene. Highlighted here are unique prints from a recently rediscovered project of late 1963. Asked by Harper's Bazaar to produce a pictorial feature on the next year's models from Detroit, Friedlander set his shiny subjects in vigorously unglamorous places: gas stations, parking lots, and even used car lots. The magazine opted not to publish these puzzle-portraits of a Pop Art landscape; they are exhibited for the first time here, on loan from the collection of Randi and Bob Fisher.
Lee Friedlander: Cars and The New Cars
November 5, 2011–February 5, 2012
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Lee Friedlander, American, born 1934. Detroit, 1963, printed 2011. Gelatin silver print. Museum purchase, gift of Elizabeth S. and Robert J. Fisher, Class of 1976. 2011-110. © Lee Friedlander, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.